Rutgers Day is Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on all three of Rutgers University’s campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden… Learn more about animals and insects though events such as the Farm Animal Showcase, cockroach races an…

Nobody is pushing the panic button just yet, but with drier-than-normal conditions and higher-than-average temperatures over the past few weeks, state officials are carefully monitoring reservoir levels as they begin to drop… “We really don’t have any margin for error in the precipitation department because we’re seeing very low stream flow for this time of year,” New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers University Dave Robinson said. “Ground water is dropping and the reservoirs in the northern part of the state are starting to drop at a rate that’s a little faster than their normal decline.”

You can tell just from walking outside, but the weather records prove this May in New Jersey is definitely cooler than usual… “Temperatures are averaging, daily highs and lows — in the upper 50s,” Dr. David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers University, told New Jersey 101.5. “And we should be, on average for the first part of May, in the lower 60s.”

The hunger for a Jersey tomato is so great that it’s already sold out… The Rutgers tomato has been popular for decades because it gave growers that “tomato tastiness” that came to be lacking in the tomatoes sold at grocery stores. Those tomatoes have to be tough enough to withstand factory farming and transportation, Rutgers plant biologist Thomas Orton says.

It’s been a mostly-dreary start to the month of May in New Jersey, with more rain expected later Friday, but maybe we shouldn’t complain about the unpleasant conditions. According to David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers, the precipitation was “much needed,” and it temporarily “put the brakes” on drought concerns for the Garden State.

What is being called “an explosion” of early tree pollen is about to descend on long-suffering New Jersey allergy victims. Blame it on the wet El Nino winter, according to Dr. Leonard Bielory, an allergy specialist with the Rutgers Center o…